New wave of strikes will test worker power

Re:New wave of strikes will test worker power by perl4ever on Saturday October 16, 2021 @10:15PM (#28893398)

>What's to keep John Deere from uplifting the whole plant and shipping it to, for example, SouthEast Asia?

That word you use, "globalization" - I do not think it means what you think it means.

2/3rds of their 70 factories are already outside the US and Canada. So without knowing anything specific, I would be pretty confident that there is something to keep them from moving a given plant, otherwise they would've already done it.

They have factories in these countries, according to official filings:

  Argentina
  Brazil
  Canada
  China
  Finland
  France
  Germany
  India
  Israel
  Italy
  Mexico
  New Zealand
  the Netherlands
  Russia
  Spain

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Re:New wave of strikes will test worker power by hadlock on Saturday October 16, 2021 @11:56PM (#28893820)

If John Deere employs no blue collar workers, it's going to be awfully hard to get their congress person/senator to vote for lower import taxes on farm equipment.

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Re:New wave of strikes will test worker power by missedthecue on Sunday October 17, 2021 @11:08AM (#28897021)

Not so long as there are still farmers and the Iowa caucus is first.

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